After a full winter of training the next WA season kicked off on Sunday with a 5km/20km/2.5km duathlon at Champion Lakes. Another professional event put on by David Budge and his TriEvents team. Elitesportz Specialist had a small number of athletes spread throughout the event. We had a very successful day. It went like this. Open Female 1st Katey Gibb (sub 60min) 3rd Alise Farrelly. Female 20-24 2nd Anthea Stacey. 25-29 1st Claire Badenhorst. 3rd Kate Shryock 4th Corrie Fillmore 5th Felicity Kostera. 45-49. 3rd Lisa Hitchcock 60-64. 1st Glenda Kirby. Top 10 places byBrent Lloyd, Ben McRobb and Jason Hope.

Elitesportz love making the trek to Ironman Bintan and this year was no different! We had professional athletes Katey Gibb and Alise Farrely as well as pocket rocket Anthea Stacey racing with outstanding results from all three!

Katey Gibb was the third Pro Female over the finish line with a time of 04:30:04. (S:00:27:29, B:02:29:02, R:01:30:32).

Alise Farrely had an amazing race in the 30-34 age group coming in at 1st place!!! She was also the first Age group to cross the finish line after the pros, well done Alise! Her finish time was 04:48:51, a huge 53 minute gap between Alise and the second place 30-34 age grouper.

Anthea Stacey finished 1st in the 18-24 age group and was the second age grouper to cross the finish line behind Alise! She finished with a time of 04:58:38 (S:00:27:48, B:02:41:06, R:01:46:10). Absolutely amazing result from Anthea who has come back from injury to smash this race. Anthea hadn’t run at all in the weeks leading up to this race due to her injury so this was a very gutsy effort.

All in all, a great day at the office for the Elitesportz team, could not be more proud of our athletes!

Over the weekend Elitesportz Professional Athlete Michelle Duffield made the trek to Japan to compete in the gruelling Ironman Japan Hokkaido, The 9th Ironman race in her career.

The race started off with a freshwater, non-wetsuit swim – both factors leant towards a slow start to the day. Michelle’s swim time was 1:04:53 and at this point in the race she was in 5th spot in the Pro Women.

The bike leg was VERY hilly with a lot of climbs. Off the bike Michelle was in 6th spot with a bike time of 06:21:53.

She made up a lot of time in the run and ran herself into 4th place with a run time of 03:30:03, earning Michelle her best placing so far as a pro at an Ironman Event.

Elitesportz had an amazing morning at the Perth Half Marathon on the weekend.

5 Athletes competed with PB’s all round!

Katey Gibb was the first female over the line with a 1:18:39. We’ve had a look through past records and can confirm that Katey set a new race record! The previous record was in 2008 set by Linda Spender in 1:19:03. Katey and Linda are the only females that have run Sub 1:20:00 in all history of the Perth Half Marathon.